New Zealand: Why take a selfie, when you can do a “dronie?”

New Zealand hotels take photographing yourself the extra step

With the help of the Tourism New Zealand-sponsored travelling drone, visitors to New Zealand have the opportunity to star in an eight-second video that can be shared on their social networks.

Published on Thu Aug 21 2014

Resorts in New Zealand are using flying drones to enable guests to shoot personal video “selfies” and share them with friends.

With the help of the Tourism New Zealand-sponsored travelling drone, visitors at six South Island destinations have the opportunity to star in an eight-second video.

The drone records a close-up portrait of the travellers, then pans out to show the surrounding scene, to provide people with a vacation memory that can be shared via social media with family and friends. The hashtag #NZdronie has been created.

NZdronie, which started last month, is travelling around New Zealand’s South Island throughout August. As it’s winter in New Zealand now, NZdronie is hitting the slopes at Coronet Peak, Cardrona, Mount Hutt and Mount Cook ski areas. It will also take a few flies around Queenstown, Wanaka, Canterbury and Lake Tekapo. As the season changes, it will also be used in other areas.

New Zealand says it is the first country to launch the service for travellers.

—Star staff

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